Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-12-15
New Advertisements.

PATENTS MUM a. 70.
County Commissioners.
Business Locals-John Root.
Isabella Mils-W. H. Biggs & Brother
A negro was shot and killed while in the
act of stealing coal on Saturday night last in
Frederick That was unfortunate but may
be repeated if petty thie"lng is not broken
up in some other way. We know Of sever
al in this locality that have prepared lead
reception for any night maraudcrs as may be
discovered.
How If LOOKS. When a local newspaper
lends l,s every influence to the advancement
! of a citizens business interests; writes him
up, gratis, and allows no step TO be taken
unnoticed, only to find that the first drum
mrr that comes along is able to secure his
| Job work, it looks very much as though the
newspaper man was a green one and had
been either poor judge, or over generous.
Wen, We do make mistakes as well as other
people, but We are careful to abstain from
committing the same error, over and over.
We are in receipt of Tie Cdrr0Ntonidn,
late the Carroll Democrat Of Westminster
Col. Avirett has sold out his holding to a
publishing company and with the charge OF
ownership comes a change in the political
tone of the paper. Under the new manage
ment, Mr. J. L. Nicholson, a journalist of
ability and wellknown in our county as the
man who made the Frederick Aeus has
charge of the Carroll MAN
He Is forcible writer and belongs to that
class of honorable Journalists who dcsplsc
scnsatlonalism as Il method he is able and
his style polished and elevated.
The people Of Carroll are to be congratula
! ted upon the advent of so good a newspaper
as we Shall expect The CarrOlItonlan TO be
1t will be IN good company, too.
The following item taken from the Fred
erick Times is calculated to give the very
| best possible idea of the position that that
town may he expected to assume in the mat
ter of the Mddlctown Valley Railroad.
| 1t says.
About week ago some one resurrectcd'
the Mddlctown Valley Railroad boom, since
which time there has been considerable talk
about the project and the probability of its
consummltion. There is no doubt that
some of these bright days the iron horse will
be stcamng down the valley but not by the
There are too many difficulties to be over
come ere the road is built, as by connecting
with the Western Maryland road at Rocky
| Ridge the grade would he too heavy to ADM,
of a good connection being made. Besides
| it is said there would be at least two miles
of tunnclng necessary. Nature has estab,
| lishcd insurmountable difficulties to the con.
struction of railroad to run throughout the
entire length Of the valley but it
might be possible that Il road from Berlin
| to Mddletown and thence east to connect
! with the =. Il. r. at Frederick would be
practicable, although that would by no
means be agreeable t. the B. g. o. officials
who seemingly are interesting themselves
in the new road. The present project how
ever will not die without great effort being
made to live but whether it will result in
anything more than talk Is shrouded in some
doubt. Hon Ou,crbridgc HorSey, proprie.
tor of the large dis'ilcry near Burkittsville
is one of the projectors Of the scheme. a
recent calculation as to the amount Of CAPT
lev and connecting with the w. NJ. Il. II.
places the sum at about 100000"
This article proves but one thing, but it
l.ovcs this conclusively; that is Frederick's
psnl stricken condition when brought to
consider the building of the proposed NJ V
Il Il. That one of its newspapers would
advocate the building of a railroad from Bcr-
lin to Frederick via Midileto and claim
the building of such road to be prac.
ticable; offering only this in exchange for a
road that traverses the entire Valley, proves
the poverty of Frederick's resources in the
matter.
1t rs we'll enough that the Frederick City
newspapers should begin early in their cam
paign against the NJ Y. railroad fer with the
odds Of their ineKpericpce and impractibility
in advocating, directing and securing great
local enterprises, the chances are 10 TO
against them. Their chief end and aim be-
ing politics and sensationalism they have ia
great measure destroyed their influence in
practical Fair such as the building of
railroads.
The inditing Of we'll rounded sentences
that sound well and are sarcastic, will not
build road from Berlin to Frederick via
Middletown, nor will the Times, argument
hasten the demise of the project that twill
not die without great effort being made to
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